Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp.

The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an hour's reflection to an hour's reading, and so dispirit the book into the student.

Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time.

Taste is often one of the aspects of fashion.

It is only dislocated minds whose movements are spasmodic.

A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have sent a reader away with a fever for life.

To study history is to study literature.